Headful of Sugar
On its latest album, the New York band works hard to sound effortless, hindered by inert performances and unconvincing lyrics.
Sunflower Bean are a dazzling rush of reckless abandon on third album Headful of Sugar
2018's 'Twentytwo In Blue' found the New Yorkers uneasy with the world around them. On album three, they're very much in control
Ultimately an exercise in Sunflower Bean showing off that they can do just about everything well.
Sunflower Bean embrace cheap thrills and chaos as they reassert themselves as one of the best bands around on 'Headful Of Sugar'.
It's a remarkable thing to witness the evolution of a rock band, especially when they grow with as much sophistication and creative maturity as Sunflower Bean do on their third album, 2022's Headful of Sugar.
Headful of Sugar swings from beautifully-sung pop music to seedy hard rock that conveys heartbroken introspection at points and carefree hedonism elsewhere yet, as a collection of songs, the third album from New York band Sunflower Bean gels impressively.
When it came to following up their critically acclaimed second album Twentytwo In Blue, New York trio Sunflower Bean—comprised of vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/they)—went back to basics. After the global pandemic curtailed their seemingly insatiable appetite for gigging the threesome turned a negative into a positive and decided to record their third album, Headful of Sugar, predominantly at their home studio.
This Sunflower Bean album is pleasant enough until you start properly listening to it. All imitation and surface with little beneath
Having grown past 'Twentytwo', NYC indie trio Sunflower Bean's 'Headful of Sugar' finds them inevitably taking on